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...Under a quota agreement with the Department of Agriculture, a market price of $130 a ton was set on 147,000 tons of raisin grapes. To the same buyers, the growers will be permitted to sell another 63,000 tons if they can be absorbed at close to $130 a ton. The Government will have to pay for the surplus-estimated at 100,000 tons-at a top of $80 a ton, the bulk of which will probably go for pig-feed at $30 or less a ton. The Department knows that the cure is to rip up the excess...
...were the only places where no one could understand us. Generally comprehension increased if you asked for "viskey" instead of "whiskey," but shopping remained a difficulty. We once solved the problem by inducing a black marketer who wanted to change a few guilders to help us buy the routine quota of Maggi soup, meat, and bisquets before entering monetary negotiations...
Near-by traffic officers rushed to the scene, and, before they had brought the situation entirely under control, a squad car also roared up an spewed forth its quota of police. The dog was speedily hustled into the squad car, and quite restored. The dog, according to its tag, came from Middletown, Connecticut...
Timing (not always so good) has been only one of the minor specialties of moonfaced, meteor-paced Jerry Wald in his eight years as the workhorse producer of the Warner lot. Last week, while the average producer managed to look busy on his year's quota of one or two pictures, Mass-Producer Jerry Wald had five more films finished, and three about ready to start shooting. It was not an unusual week for Hollywood's busiest moviemaker. Last year he turned out nine pictures, including the laureled Johnny Belinda, and got enough quality into the quantity...
...most students, as they sat in an open car heading west or a metropolitan office or a Paris cafe, the summer's quota of world news sounded as if it had been coded and the key thrown away. No historian with an obscurantist bent could have dreamed up three months of events that inspired more confusion among the populace than did the months of July, August, and September in 1949, the fourth year of cold war. The headlines asked many questions, which, treated calmly, would have been difficult to answer; dealt with emotionally, as most of the questions were, they...